The deadliest arrows come from within. At war with yourself, you hunt yourself.

What it means

Much of our suffering is self-inflicted: the critic, the doubt, the old wound we keep reopening. Jung says the hero's real enemy fires from inside. Make peace there first.

The source

"The deadliest arrows come from within. At war with yourself, you hunt yourself." Carl Jung said it in Psychology of the Unconscious (1916), Part II, ch. VI 'The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother'. Translated by Beatrice M. Hinkle, 1916.

"The deadly arrows do not strike the hero from without, but it is he himself who, in disharmony with himself, hunts, fights and tortures himself."

Beatrice M. Hinkle, 1916, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916), Part II, ch. VI 'The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother'. Text read at gutenberg.org.

Who said it

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.

Questions

What does "The deadliest arrows come from within. At war with yourself, you hunt yourself." mean?

Much of our suffering is self-inflicted: the critic, the doubt, the old wound we keep reopening. Jung says the hero's real enemy fires from inside. Make peace there first.

Who said "The deadliest arrows come from within. At war with yourself, you hunt yourself."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Psychology of the Unconscious (1916), Part II, ch. VI 'The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother'.

What is the original wording?

The deadly arrows do not strike the hero from without, but it is he himself who, in disharmony with himself, hunts, fights and tortures himself (Beatrice M. Hinkle, 1916). Translated by Beatrice M. Hinkle, 1916.

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